Flag of France
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Background knowledge
The flag of France shows the colors blue, white and red in a vertical arrangement. It is the first and most famous national flag in the world, served as a model for many flags in the world, and is known as "The Tricolor". The colors blue, white and red have their origin in the combination of the colors of Paris (blue and red) with the royal white of the Bourbons. They were officially introduced for the French cockade on 04.10.1789. The current arrangement and sequence of the colors of the flag was established only in 1794.
Hymn
Marseillaise:
1st verse
Up, children of the fatherland!
The day of glory is here.
Against us tyranny
bloody banner has been raised. (twice)
Do you hear in the land
The roar of the cruel warriors?
They come upon us,
your sons, your wives to behead!
Refrain
To arms, citizens!
Close ranks,
Forward, let us march!
The impure blood
water our fields' furrows!
2nd verse
What does this horde of slaves want,
Of traitors, of conspiring kings?
For whom these mean fetters,
these irons long prepared? (twice)
Frenchmen, for us, alas! what ignominy,
What wrath must this provoke!
One dares to think of it,
Leading us into the old bondage!
Refrain
- Verse
What! foreign riffraff
would command our homes!
What! These mercenary hordes would
cut down our proud warriors! (twice)
Great God! With chains on their hands
our heads would bow to the yoke.
Vile despots would
Decide our fate!
Refrain
- Verse
Tremble, tyrants and you lowlifes
Shame of all parties,
Tremble! Your wicked plans
Will be paid back to you at last! (Twice)
Each is soldier to fight you,
When you fall, our young heroes,
Beget the earth new,
Who are ready to fight you!
Refrain
- Verse
Frenchmen, you noble warriors,
Stagger your blows or withhold them!
Spare these sad victims,
Who reluctantly take up arms against us. (Twice)
But these bloodthirsty despots,
But these accomplices of Bouillé,
All these tigers who mercilessly rend
their mother's breast!
Refrain
- Verse
Holy love of the fatherland,
Guide, support our avenging arms.
Freedom, beloved freedom,
Fight with thy defenders! (Twice)
That victory under our flags
May rush to the aid of the sounds of sturdy men,
That your dying enemies
May see your victory and our glory!
Refrain
- Verse
We shall tread life's path onward,
When the elders shall be no more,
We shall find there their dust
And their virtues' trace. (Twice)
Rather share their coffin
Than outlive them,
Will we with lofty pride
Avenge them or follow them.
French flag color codes
- HEX
- #002654
- RGB
- 0, 38, 84
- CMYK
- 100, 80, 0, 0
- RAL
- 5020
- Pantone
- Reflexblau
- HEX
- #FFFFFF
- RGB
- 255, 255, 255
- CMYK
- 0, 0, 0, 0
- RAL
- 9010
- Pantone
- Weiß
- HEX
- #ED2939
- RGB
- 237, 41, 57
- CMYK
- 0, 100, 100, 0
- RAL
- 3024
- Pantone
- 3024
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